All our materials are recycled in the UK, creating jobs in other parts of the UK.

3. It’s best for the environment …

99.97% of everything we collect is properly recycled.

* As much as a quarter of what is collected through some co-mingled systems is not actually recyclable due to contamination.

* Take paper, for example. Paper from mixed collection systems is such poor quality that paper mills have built extra sorting facilities to clean the material being delivered to their doors. They therefore reject a significant amount of paper that collected co-mingled but this is not recorded in recycling figures.